ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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viding broader access to the un in d ex ed  five- 
volum e set. A facsimile o f each page will also 
be included for researchers w h o  w ish to com ­
pare the original to the new ly edited text. The 
conversion o f texts to CD-ROM should reduce 
the w ear and tear o n  rare books and m anu­
scripts. Proposals for using the lab are invited. 
Contact Faye Phillips, Louisiana and Lower Mis­
sissippi Valley Collections, LSU, (504) 388-6551.

Successful fu n draising  b y  p aren ts …
The Parents F und P honothon at Rutgers raised 
$151,411 to su p p o rt the libraries. The m oney, 
th e  l a r g e s t a m o u n t e v e r  r a i s e d  b y  th e  
Phonothon, will be u sed  to su p p o rt the b ook 
acquisitions fund.

. . .  a n d  staff
The staff at Pasadena (California) City College 
(PCC) donated $310,000 tow ard the n ew  cam­
pus library currently u n d er construction. “Two 
separate staff campaigns have been  conducted,”

said Dr. G rover G oyne, dean o f Institutional 
A dvancem ent at PCC. “In the first cam paign 42 
staff m em bers pledged $5,000 each.” The sec­
o n d  cam paign included a challenge grant from 
the Berger Foundation in w hich they w ould 
m atch funds if $100,000 w ere raised; 100 staff 
m em bers p ledged $1,000 each. B etw een staff 
contributions an d  foundation a n d  corporate 
gifts, over $1.5 million has b een  raised for the 
new  library.

7 5 ,0 0 0  callers s a y  YES
“T here’s no greater thing than libraries. I couldn’t 
live w ithout them . I go there all the time and I 
am  never disappointed,” w as a sentim ent given 
by one o f the over 75,000 callers w ho regis­
tered their support for libraries in the “Call for 
A merica’s Libraries” cam paign sp o n so red  by 
ALA and the Friends of Libraries USA.

Names an d  addresses of supporters w ere 
collected an d  will be p resen ted  to  Congress 
an d  m ade available to  local libraries to use as a

Librarians meet in Budapest
The fourth international conference on New 

Inform ation T echnology (NIT) w as h eld  in 
Budapest, Hungary, D ecem ber 2-4, 1991. The 
purpose o f the conferences is to  equalize in­
formation sharing opportunities aim ed at in­
formation professionals from both developing 
and developed countries, to establish a global 
information network on NIT subjects, and to un­
derstand the worldwide infotmation advances.

O ver 230 registered participants, represent­
ing the United States an d  16 developing and 
developed countries from  Eastern an d  West­
ern E uropean regions, participated in the two- 
and-a-half-day conference that w as hosted and 
c o -sp o n so red  in  B udapest by th e N ational 
Szechenyi Library o f H ungary. It w as su p ­
p o rted  by m any U nited States governm ental 
agencies as w ell as by several library organi­
zations and organized by Dr. Ching-chih Chen, 
professor an d  associate d ean  o f th e  G raduate 
School of Library a n d  Information Science at 
Simmons College, Boston.

The conference concentrated o n  the fol­
lowing topics: n ew  technologies, perspectives, 
and disciplines; new  technologies and hum ani­
ties; CD-ROM publishing; library autom ation: 
the Eastern European cases; digital visual in­

form ation age; neural netw orks: experience 
and potentials; new  information technology 
in academ ic libraries; n ew  inform ation tech­
nology and users’ perspective; technology and 
biom edical inform ation access; com m unicat­
ing, sharing, an d  training; databases— inter­
national perspectives; classification, indexing, 
an d  union catalog; CD-ROM product reviews 
an d  CD-ROM use. The official conference lan­
guage w as English; how ever, sim ultaneous 
translations into H ungarian w ere available for 
all sessions.

T he conference sh o w ed  the latest NIT de­
velopm ents internationally an d  established an 
excellent inform ation netw ork am ong partici­
pants from th e developing an d  d ev elo p e d  
countries. Librarians are looking forw ard to 
the next NIT conference to  b e  held in Hong 
Kong at the en d  o f August 1992.

Copies o f Proceedings o f  N IT  ’91 and N IT 
CD-ROM can b e ord ered  from MicroUse In­
formation, 1400 C om m onw ealth Ave., N ew ­
to n , MA 02165; fax: (6 1 7 ) 527-0421 — 
S u z a n n e  D. Gyeszly, collection developm ent 
coordinator f o r  social sciences a n d  preserva­
tion, Sterling C. E vans Library, Texas A&M 
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